Imagination Technologies ships its Caustic Series2 R2500 and R2100 ray tracing acceleration boards.

Rock Paper Scissors’ Adam Pertofsky cuts the “Got Milk” spot for ad agency Deutsch featuring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson using Adobe Premiere Pro.

Colorworks, Sony Pictures Entertainment’s digital intermediate facility, opens a new facility focused on 4K television postproduction.

LightWave 11.5 enhances 3D creativity with new Soft Body Bullet Dynamics, After Effects integration, Interactive Modeling Tools, Genoma character rigging system and much more.

SilhouetteFX releases Silhouette V5 which incorporates hundreds of upgrades as well as brand new features.

FMX 2013, Europe's most renowned conference on digital entertainment, adopts the slogan, “lean, smart and agile,” and focuses on the ongoing paradigm shift in the animation, effects, games and transmedia industries.

Leading developer Shotgun hires Rob Blau as Head of Pipeline Engineering.

Visual effects and animation studio Atomic Fiction taps Shotgun Software’s Shotgun production management tool for Robert Zemeckis’ aviation drama “Flight.”

Park Road Post taps the power of SGO’s Mistika for the DI workflow for Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.”

Render Version for NUKE significantly cuts costs for Stereo 3D, post production facilities; enables large-scale batch rendering for depth propagation and stereo generation.

The Motion Capture Society and Motion Analysis Studios host an evening mixer featuring technology demos from Motion Analysis, Faceware, and Pixomondo on Thursday, January 24.

In a significant step toward its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the Eastman Kodak Company receives approval to borrow up to $844 million for interim and exit financing.

Laird Malamed joins Oculus VR as the new Chief Operating Officer.

Geomerics opens a new office in Vancouver to be closer to its growing US and Canadian customer base.

Computer graphics and visual effects software developer The Foundry launches a brand-new review tool for VFX.

Red Giant Software’s Trapcode commissions “Exodus,” an animated short film by director/designer Magnus Östergren of Stockholm-based production studio Potemkin.

The Academy honors Imagineer Systems with the Scientific and Technical Award for mocha and its Planar Tracking technology.

Actors Chris Pine and Zoe Saldana are to host the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards on Saturday, February 9, at The Beverly Hills Hotel.

Crater Software announces the release of CTP 4.0, the cartoon animation software for Windows.

German electro pop pioneers tap the dynamic interactive and 3D features of Dataton Watchout multi-image and presentation software for on-stage digital scenography.